The details of the organization are as follows:

• Website link: www.iiconsortium.org
• Corporate membership: 258
• Founded: 2014

A non-profit that was started in 2014 by AT&T, Cisco, GE, IBM, and Intel, the consortium exists to bring together industry partners to assist in the adoption and development of the industrial IoT. The group is not a standards body but instead drives reference architectures and test beds for manufacturing, health, transportation, smart cities, and the energy sector. There are currently 19 working groups that span areas such as connectivity, safety, energy, smart factories, and healthcare. The group has six levels of membership including government and non-profit levels. The corporate memberships scale in influence and cost based on the company’s annual sales. The testbed definitions are broad and well defined and include specific industrial use cases such as airline baggage handling tests. As mentioned previously, the OMG group manages the operations of the group but the IIC is itself its own organization.